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Topic: Anything about Doom a new user should know (Read 4964 times)

I'm finally ordering my new GPU and Doom today. Should be in by Monday. Is there anything I should know about the game before I start? Like I've heard here about corrupted saved games and an issue with developer mode and the cloud? Any tips would be nice.

Every time I exit the game I copy my savegame folder (c:\users\username\saved games\id software\doom\base\savegame) to another folder, just in case. I have two copies so if one is corrupted and I don't know I can revert to an older one.

Validate your steam cache for the game BEFORE you play the first time. So yes, you download the game, then have it check & possibly redownload again.

Disable the steam cloud for that game. You will still get achivements & be able to upload your screenshots, but it's a PITA with the savegame corruption & crashes.

Besides that, have fun. It's a lot of fun to kill demons in this game.

I'll do all those. Probably not the check cache tip though if I'm being honest. I think I'll be way to excited. And I rarely have issues with my games like that. Is Doom more prone to getting corrupted?

On a relatively high end PC I've had zero crashes/major issues after 30 hours. That's on a PC with a faulty CPU that will hard freeze in every single game (eventually), except Doom, funnily enough. So I'd have to echo the polar opposite of Friars issues, the game runs buttery smooth on both my work and home PC's.

The one thing I would mention though is that all of your settings are saved on steamcloud. This includes graphics settings, so it's a pain in the ass to go between my home and work PC's as the work one has less VRAM (lower Virtual Texture size) and runs a different aspect ratio to my home PC.

Other than that, I imagine if you're running on modern hardware, you'll be fine. If not, you may have issues.

My processor and ram will be my worst problem but I think I'll be ok. Couldn't be any worse then playing Fallout 4 right now. I'll do everything Friar said except for the check cache. I can't wait another day if it needs to be downloaded again.

Happens to a lot of people so far & according to the crash reports (not related to the dev mode bug, officially), it seems to happen on Win 7/8/10, AMD & Nvidia GPU's, various amounts of RAM.

I haven't had the game crash in several days until yesterday. I'm thinking the crashes are a driver issue (both Nvidia & AMD released drivers just for this game and some people even report those breaking the game) & I think the dev mode bug are due to the drm & resource files. The biggest issue with the dev mode bug is that once your game is flagged in dev mode you can't get achievements/upload your snapmaps until you fix it. Seems the DRM does a checksum of the resource files/save games & if they don't match it launches the game in dev mode (for resource files) & locks your save games in dev mode (if it's the save game).